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robatwork
robatwork Posts: 7,105 Forumite
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edited 14 February 2015 at 11:15AM in Praise, vent & warnings
OK so we all know countless people can't use you're and your. Don't get me started on their and they're and there.

But I have noticed, especially on the MSE forums, the creeping misuse of advice and advise. Is it really so difficult?

I'm sure these people can say the word out loud properly - I've never heard anyone say "I'd like some advise".

Not sure if I blame teachers or the advent of spell checkers that aren't sense checkers.
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  • daytona0
    daytona0 Posts: 2,358 Forumite
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    you're post is pointless.
  • AJXX
    AJXX Posts: 847 Forumite
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    Who cares, this is a user to user help forum. Not a grammar competition.

    It's pretty obvious what they mean isn't it?

    Your looking way too much into this. There just people looking for advise
  • Hedgehog99
    Hedgehog99 Posts: 1,425 Forumite
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    Just part of the general decline (some would claim progress or evolution) in the English language. For those who don't notice, it doesn't matter, but it interrupts someone's concentration if they do notice. It's the difference between a CV in the bin or a CV on the interview pile.
  • powerful_Rogue
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    My advise is not to look into it two much.
    Their will be people along shortly criticising you because you bought this up.
  • artbaron
    artbaron Posts: 7,285 Forumite
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    What gets me is that it's not even a 50 / 50 split as you'd expect if people were just guessing which word to use. Seems to me people get it wrong about 80% of the time which suggests they're doing it deliberately. Something fishy is going on.
  • robatwork
    robatwork Posts: 7,105 Forumite
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    Hedgehog99 wrote: »
    It's the difference between a CV in the bin or a CV on the interview pile.

    This.

    As I have said on the employment forum however, if I threw away every CV with even a tiny spelling/grammar error, which is my default position, I wouldn't ever actually interview anyone.
  • robatwork
    robatwork Posts: 7,105 Forumite
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    I didn't even mention advices or advises.
  • kwikbreaks
    kwikbreaks Posts: 9,187 Forumite
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    If I spot these sort of errors, and I probably don't every time as I tend to skim posts rather than scrutinise them, they grate. I never make a comment about them though as sod's law says I'll make a typo in it....
  • VanyaHargreeves
    VanyaHargreeves Posts: 937 Forumite
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    powerful_Rogue wrote: »
    My advise is not to look into it two much.
    Their will be people along shortly criticising you because you bought this up.

    You are a monster :D
    Undergrad law student. Take my advice with a pinch of salt! :rotfl:
  • gik
    gik Posts: 1,130 Forumite
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    kwikbreaks wrote: »
    If I spot these sort of errors, and I probably don't every time as I tend to skim posts rather than scrutinise them, they grate. I never make a comment about them though as sod's law says I'll make a typo in it....



    Grate....don't talk to me about grate. Try searching on ebay for chester draws...now that really does GRATE!
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